GUILDERLAND — Seventeen-year-old Joseph Giordano — who comes from a family of horn players — is one of just 32 kids from across the country to be chosen for the prestigious 2017 Grammy Camp - Jazz Session.

Giordano, a senior at Guilderland High School, will travel to Los Angeles for 10 days in February to join the other students, who include brass musicians, pianists, guitarists, drummers, and vocalists. He will be playing first trombone.

In various ensembles, students will record an album at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, play at a number of Grammy Week events, attend the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, perform at the Grammy after-party, and study with prominent music teachers from around the country.

Giordano has been playing trombone since he was in fourth grade, which is also when he started playing jazz — not at school, but on his own. He was inspired by his father, a trombone player and jazz afficionado who, Giordano says, “got me  hooked, with his sound and his passion. It totally rubbed off on me.”

Joe Giordano has applied to jazz studies programs at six different colleges.

His mother, Mary Giordano, is a French hornist and taught music for many years in Berne. She is now the executive director of Family Promise, a not-for-profit group that helps homeless families get back on their feet. She still plays, in the Tri-City Brass Quintet.

His parents’ love of music influenced all four children, because Therese, 19, is studying French horn in the music conservatory at Purchase College, State University of New York. Ninth-grader Kathryn plays trombone and euphonium, and John, in seventh grade, plays clarinet and is now picking up the saxophone.

Father Mark Giordano — who was a music teacher for many years and is now retired — had a large album collection and was always playing all different kinds of records.

Joe Giordano said that he learned from his father not just how to play, but how to listen.

“The first record I really listened to in-depth was Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue,’” the young man said. “I was listening to the feeling of the record and the emotions of each individual musician,” he said. “Part of listening is just feeling, feeling what makes the music so great,” he continued.